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Geology, the regulated discipline and profession in Europe

2020; International Union of Geological Sciences; Volume: 44; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.18814/epiiugs/2020/020075

2586-1298

Tamás Hámor, Mária Hámor‐Vidó, Vítor Correia,

Geology and Environmental Impact Studies

Geological aspects and the related duties of geologists are embedded into numerous sector-specific legislation of the European Union and its legal predecessors.In a broad sense, geology-related topics make up about 10-15% of EU legal documents.The founding treaties of the European Coal and Steel Community and Euratom provide rules related mainly to the fossil fuels extractive industry.In the last decade of the twentieth century, environment, water and waste management regulatory fields entered the Community domain, along with geological issues.Energy policy, de-carbonization, raw materials policy and the circular-economy concept generated numerous new tasks for geoscientists over the last twenty years.The Professional Qualifications Directive acknowledges geology as a regulated profession, it facilitates the mobility of geologists across Member States, and, together with the codification of geoscientists' work, drives geoscience professionalism in Europe.